Web Fonts Issues
Discussions focus on privacy risks like fingerprinting from web fonts, performance delays in loading especially Google Fonts, and alternatives such as self-hosting, browser blocking, or using system fonts.
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Most fonts used on websites are not present on users' computers. Why not disable using webfonts in your browser and be done?
Even google news renders weird without custom fonts if I remember correctly. Lots of sites use font files as icon sets etc.
Stop using Google for fonts while you're at it...
why don't browsers just ship with its own fonts?
interesting that the author used images of the font rather than actually embedding the font into this webpage
I just set browser.display.use_document_fonts=0 and don't worry about the privacy implications of font loading anymore.
remember the times when common sense was to not accept the remote site's fonts, and thus web devs should not use them
If you care that much you need to bundle the font with your site.
Do you have web font blocking setup in the browser?
Don't forget about self-hosted web fonts! People forget this is even an option